Mitch McGary was a Sporting News preseason first-team All-American based off of his excellent performance during the Wolverines’ NCAA Tournament run to the championship game.

McGary averaged 14.3 points and 10 rebounds during that run, but neither number has been eclipsed or even reached this season by the sophomore.

Mitch McGary (AP Photo)

Wolverines coach John Beilein revealed during an interview Thursday on WTKA-AM in Ann Arbor that a variety of nagging injuries are holding him back. McGary missed the first two games of the season because of a back condition, and MLive.com reports that McGary has tweaked an ankle at least twice in the early part of the season. Beilein also mentioned a week ago that McGary also has a quad contusion.

"Right now, Mitch cannot go 100 percent," Beilein said. "He can't do what he can, and it's for a lot of different reasons. He's a high motor guy, he's an energy guy, and when your body cannot do that right now, for a variety of reasons, it's going to hold him back. So we've got to keep working and working and working to get him healthy and get him in superior shape."

That would help explain why Arizona was able to punish Michigan on the interior in the Wildcats' 72-70 win at the Crisler Center, a game in which McGary had only 8 points and 4 rebounds.

Michigan's next game is againt Stanford on Saturday in the Brooklyn Hoops Holiday Invitational at the Barclays Center in New York. Beilein says McGary is doing all he can to get as healthy as quickly as possible.

"He's a very willing participant in the different things that we're doing," Beilein told WTKA. "Part of it is obviously cardio training. Part of it is weight training. Part of it is rest. Part of it is treatment. There’s all kinds of things. Believe me, every hour that he has that does not involve final exams, final papers, is involved in trying to get him back to a level that he can perform at his best."